sav·age

adjective

/ˈsævɪdʒ/

aggressive and violent; causing great harm凶恶的；凶残的；损害严重的 synonym brutal
- savage dogs恶狗
- She had been badly hurt in what police described as ‘a savage attack’.她遭受袭击而身受重伤，警方称这是一次“野蛮的袭击”。
- savage public spending cuts拼命削减公共开支
Extra Examples
- Police have over 20 new leads in the hunt for the savage killer of two young boys.警方在追捕杀害两名小男孩的凶手时获得了 20 多条新线索。
- Resistance provoked savage reprisals from the authorities.反抗激起了当局的野蛮报复。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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involving very strong criticism猛烈抨击的
- The article was a savage attack on the government's record.文章对政府的所作所为进行了猛烈的抨击。
[only before noun] (old-fashioned, taboo, offensive) an offensive way of referring to groups of people or customs that are considered to be simple and not highly developed蒙昧的；未开化的；野蛮的 synonym primitive
- a savage tribe野蛮部落

Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.

noun

/ˈsævɪdʒ/

(old-fashioned, taboo, offensive) an offensive word for somebody who belongs to a people considered to be simple and not developed对属于被认为简单且不发达的民族的人的冒犯性词语 see also noble savage
a cruel and violent person凶狠残暴的人
- He described the attack as the work of savages.他把这次袭击称为野蛮行径。

Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.

verb

/ˈsævɪdʒ/

[usually passive]

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they savage	/ˈsævɪdʒ/ /ˈsævɪdʒ/
he / she / it savages	/ˈsævɪdʒɪz/ /ˈsævɪdʒɪz/
past simple savaged	/ˈsævɪdʒd/ /ˈsævɪdʒd/
past participle savaged	/ˈsævɪdʒd/ /ˈsævɪdʒd/
-ing form savaging	/ˈsævɪdʒɪŋ/ /ˈsævɪdʒɪŋ/

(of an animal) to attack somebody violently, causing serious injury凶狠地攻击（或伤害）；残害
- be savaged (by something) She was savaged to death by a bear.她遭熊袭击而丧命。
(formal) to criticize somebody/something severely严厉抨击
- be savaged (by somebody) Her latest novel has been savaged by the critics.她最近的一部小说受到评论家的猛烈批评。

Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.

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